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Today In Space History: Apollo 1 Fire

By TonyF on 27 January 2010 at 7:46AM

Flowers and plaque at the KSC Astronaut Memorial. NASA PHOTO NO: KSC-07PD-0174January 27th marks the 43nd anniversary of a tragic day in the race for the moon: the Apollo 1 fire. On 27 Jan 1967, three astronauts lost their lives on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral during a test procedure in preparation for what would have been the first mission in the lunar program. Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee perished when a spark ignited the pure-oxygen atmosphere of the Apollo Command Module at Pad 34. Crew info here; Image collections here and here. The loss of AS-204 caused a delay of nearly two years in the Apollo program, resulting in many changes to the spacecraft design.

Life Magazine photo from the Grissom burialIn December 1997, nearly 31 years after the accident, President Clinton posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Chaffee and White. Grissom's was among the first medals awarded in October 1978 by President Carter.

This week will see remembrances of the three tragedies whose anniversaries fall so closely on the calendar: Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia. Never forget the heroes of space exploration!

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Land on the Moon in Google Earth !!

By Rick on 21 July 2009 at 9:12PM

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  • Take tours of landing sites, narrated by Apollo astronauts
  • View 3D models of landed spacecraft
  • Zoom into 360-degree photos to see astronauts' footprints
  • Watch rare TV footage of the Apollo missions

http://earth.google.com/moon/

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‘ONE SMALL STEP’…

By Rick on 20 July 2009 at 9:57PM

At 10:56 p.m. EDT on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong descended the ladder of the Apollo 11 lunar module, becoming the first man to walk on the moon.

 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534129,00.html

Forty years ago this evening, a man walked on the moon for the first time, a moment that will stand for millennia as one of humanity's most remarkable achievements.

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Apollo Astronauts Bemoan State of U.S. Space Program

By Rick on 20 July 2009 at 9:54PM

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. investment in the Apollo space program, which landed men on the moon, paid off handsomely, unlike the $100 billion plowed into the International Space Station, Apollo's pioneering astronauts said on Monday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE56J4O020090720?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=22&sp=true

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Apollo 40th Anniversary

By Rick on 19 July 2009 at 10:36PM

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/

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The Saga Of the Lost Moon Tapes

By Rick on 16 July 2009 at 1:04PM

The Saga Of the Lost Space Tapes

NASA Is Stumped in Search For Videos of 1969 Moonwalk....As Neil Armstrong prepared to take his "one small step" onto the moon in July 1969, a specially hardened video camera tucked into the lander's door clicked on to capture that first human contact with the lunar surface. The ghostly images of the astronaut's boot touching the soil record what may be the most iconic moment in NASA history, and a major milestone for mankind.

Millions of television viewers around the world saw those fuzzy, moving images and were amazed, even mesmerized. What they didn't know was that the Apollo 11 camera had actually sent back video far crisper and more dramatic -- spectacular images that, remarkably, only a handful of people have ever seen.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013002065.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533160,00.html

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Neil Armstrong to Skip Apollo 11 Event

By Rick on 15 July 2009 at 10:11PM

The first man to walk on the moon will not take part in a NASA event celebrating the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/15/neil-armstrong-nasa-apollo-event

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Space Foundation Publishes Apollo 11 Recollections

By Rick on 10 July 2009 at 2:53PM

NASA: Apollo 40th AnniversaryThe Space Foundation began soliciting for memories in early July and has thus far received more than 100 brief snippets of Apollo memories.

Share yours at http://www.spacefoundation.org/media/apollo40/.

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